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By Tim Beames & Bart van Buchem | Le Pub Scientifique
A man tells Tim he thinks he could walk for twenty minutes. Tim asks how he'd feel afterwards. "I'd be in pieces," the man says. "Absolutely ragged."
So twenty minutes goes in the bin. Not because twenty minutes is wrong, but because if the p...
By Tim Beames & Bart van Buchem | Le Pub Scientifique
A patient is walking slowly down the corridor with her rollator. Bart says, deadpan: "Careful round this corner — you might hit the wall at that speed." She cracks up laughing.
It's a small moment. It's not a technique. Nobody would writ...
By Tim Beames & Bart van Buchem | Le Pub Scientifique
Here's something most clinicians have seen but few talk about directly: persistent pain doesn't just hurt. It shrinks the world.
Less movement. Less socialising. Less travel. Less spontaneity. Less confidence. Less exploration. Over time, ...
By Tim Beames & Bart van Buchem | Le Pub Scientifique
There's a moment in clinic that most pain clinicians will recognise. A patient looks at you and says something like: "I just want to get rid of my leg." They don't mean it literally — they know they need the leg — but the language tells you e...